Precisely! Why not support the technologies that exist especially when it comes to helping drive critical mass of users to both? Making this a Lemmy instance would be mutually beneficial to both.
And even if you want to give an elitist vibe to your community by making it invite-only, you can set up Lemmy to be without federation and with restricted applications.
Running a Lemmy instance is a nightmare. Putting aside the questionable Lemmy community, the software takes an enormous amount of resources and is incredibly finicky, always some new bug. The end-user UX is rough, and god forbid you ever want to try to improve it by adding a new feature or improving any existing ones. Not to mention federation woes - it doesn't work reliably in the first place, and you either have to only federate with a select few strictly moderated instances (and abide by their rules yourself), or risk spam and illegal content getting stored on your server.
I'm bitter because I really want to love the fediverse. I fully support the principles behind it, but making an ActivityPub-based server is less like adding RSS to a site and more like running a WordPress site with a bunch of iffy plugins. The relative popularity of the fediverse shows that there's a market for non-corporate social media, but the protocol has fundamental issues that really limit it. Hopefully someday the community can rally around something better.
> Hopefully someday the community can rally around something better.
I don't disagree, but at the same time I always feel like users keep this infinite laundry list of requirements just to conveniently excuse themselves of any commitment.
Case in point: I can host a Lemmy instance for customers (up to 100 users) for less than $20/month. I manage all the software, security and deal with the inconveniences of alpha software. People need "just" to bring friends and make sure that everyone there behave like decent human beings. I also pledge to give 20% of my profits to the developers.
In theory it's a win-win-win. In practice, people just prefer to stick with Instagram or going to Bluesky because that doesn't require anything from them.
Security vs. Liberty. My country claims to want the latter, but gives up the former everytime for something convinient and "it just works".
Most people don't care if it's a black box leeching your data and causing national disrest. they just want to do a simple thing and forget about it. This is partiially why we're heading to doom.
All your issues just sound like "Lemmy is buggy", not necessarily "federation as a concept doesn't work".
> Hopefully someday the community can rally around something better.
It's hard because if no one adopts it, it will improve slower. I'm sure Lobsters has its share of issues and bugs too, but there's simply been less peoeple to battletest it.
If we moved to whatever Bluesky uses it'd probably have the same growing pains. It's just a shame Open Source is slowly corroding and we only "really" fix such issues by paying developers full time to do the boring stuff (which ofc, most OS cannot afford).
Wow, how dehumanizing for older people. You seem to take offense only to the fact that this person is 55 years old? I don't see anyone calling it "rape" when the rest of the population is engaging in drunken sex at nightclubs.
I don't disagree, it's always a balance of "how much time do I actually want to spend on my workflow vs getting the work done", but I think the only reasonable way to use Vim is to build your environment over time (many years) and have it in source control so that you never have to do it again. You'll still have to keep making updates of course, but that's typically a bit smaller time commitment.
It's not; the standard is what is that job worth to the company? If exploitable low-cost Kenyans were not available, what would these companies pay? I can't tell you that, but I can tell you it is not $2/hr.
I've been using this and it's been working great. I don't use folders anymore since this supports tags which are better. The data is easy to backup although I haven't done it very often. I've been using the hosted endpoint, but want to setup my own when I have time.
I don't think people want to come into the US anymore. The country has been in a serious decline since Bush Jr, and it's not going to be changed by a one or two terms of a democratic presidency. Even developing countries don't have the same issues with abortion rights, etc...
Abortion? I bet most of the immigrants watch the old american movies and imagine how they live in their own house with a green lawn. They chase the american dream.
Human geography changes over time. People move for economics, relationships, preferences, etc. There are shortages in the destinations and vacant properties in the origins. (Destination populations don’t necessarily change much either, but that’s because population is bounded above by housing capacity… question is what would population be if they made room, how competitive it is to get or keep a slot).
Household size also changes. People are forming families later or not at all, so spending more time living alone. Empty nesters are staying in the houses they raised children in instead of downsizing, for various reasons, but especially a lack of smaller places to downsize to. The mix of apartments, houses, townhouses, and bedroom counts needs to be flexible and respond to population over time.
It’s simply not the case that the living arrangements that were in place when we froze everything in amber just keep working for us indefinitely into the future. Needs change!
The population that matters is the population that would otherwise be FTHBs, roughly 25-35 year olds. That population has grown like crazy as Millennials come of age. Most of the pandemic deaths were Silent Generation, and many of them were already in nursing homes, not occupying detached SFHs.
Things will change in ~10 years as baby boomers start dying off (or at least vacating their homes for senior living) en masse and are replaced by the relatively tiny Zoomer generation, but things are going to be tight for the next decade or so.
